Photo was amongst the postcard collection of Ida Lola Rhodes-Garten. No postmark or from who info to determine where taken. Only states: Taken on front porch on X-mas Dec. 1909.
[4/24/2010] Mystery solved? It is very probable this photocard was sent to Ida (Rhodes) Garten from her aunt Margaret "Maggie" M. (Evans) Pool who family members noted as moving to New Mexico to work for an Indian agency. In the 1910 census Margaret and her husband, Stephen A. Pool, are enumerated in the San Juan Indian Agency or San Juan Indian Training School.
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